Star Trek Picard Season Three

NakedMoleRat said:
I’m wondering who will die. Geordi won’t as Burton was on Whoopie’s show saying he’d love to do a spin off series.
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Well since Star Trek turned into jj/kurtzman trek it also turned into fantasy. Death is no problem with an infinite amount of timelines/alternate realities.

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BlandoCalrssian said:
Call it member berries all you want, but that last few minutes was beautiful. And that bridge set was just….perfect. Sometimes you see a recreated filming set and it will look pretty close but you’ll quickly notice an angle that’s slightly off, some small sizing difference. This was pretty damn close.
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Except they recreated the TNG set instead of the newer version from Generations? Nitpicking ;) As Alley already posted. :)

CB2001 said:
I just had a thought: before she died, Majel Barrett recorded a whole library of phonetic sounds for future use in Star Trek productions as the voice of the computer. Consider that and the amount of dialogue she provided as the computer for three shows, the TNG movies and video games from the late 1990s early 2000s, her voice can be recreated to be used for new dialogue as the computer for future shows and movies now.
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Read about that shortly after her passing. Been eagerly waiting for it to happen. Having already been done to Vader's voice, it wouldn't really hurt much if Majel's computer voice sounds a bit artificial.


pengbuzz said:
Maybe, but the bridge is slightly off:

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And unless Picard has some really bad scoliosis, people don't shrink that much as they get older:
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Didn't Picard die in season 1? :p


Bloop said:
Okay, I hate political talk here - it's supposed to be against the forum rules, Go back and watch TOS and TNG and count how many stories are allegories on race, religion, sexual orientation, climate change, socialism, human rights...the list goes on-and-on.
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Totally. Buuuut :p There is a (lot of) major difference between TOS/TNG and kurtzman trek.
Typically Trek used to deal with issues and present one or two viewpoints.
Kurtzman trek tends to try to beat people senseless with a message. I would say it doesn't really matter if the viewer agrees with whatever political messages are presented. It can be really off-putting, even when you agree with it. Let the viewer decide "who's right".

I at least want good stories, with fleshed out characters that do not feel like 2D caricatures. Some versimilitude! Stick with rules of the universe, or at least do not invent new rules that makes no sense in established canon.
Stargate made fun of this years ago.


 
asalaw said:
I doubt that it would have been subconscious. Actors are very conscious of what they do with their "instrument," meaning their body and voice, and bits of business like that are very deliberate.


Me neither, and I was there, and my memory from 33 years ago when I took no measurements is of course flawlessly accurate. :p
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I saw an interview with either Blass or Matalas, and they said Patrick Stewart performed the Picard maneuver and was quite pleased with himself for doing it when he sat down. So they made it sound unscripted, but I don't know that for sure.
 
ALLEY said:
I’m sorry, but despite my otherwise gushing praise of this season of Picard, that is the ugliest version of the phaser ever created.

What a horrible mish mash…
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I like it. I can totally see Jack Crusher cobbling it together for himself, or making a below-the-counter purchase on some backwater planet.
 
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jts1031 said:
I saw an interview with either Blass or Matalas, and they said Patrick Stewart performed the Picard maneuver and was quite pleased with himself for doing it when he sat down. So they made it sound unscripted, but I don't know that for sure.
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That makes sense. In my experience, probably half or more of actors' bits of business are ad-libbed. It's one of the things a good actor brings to the role that pulls the character off the page and into the world. And that sort of thing is never scripted unless it's necessary for the scene, or it's commented on in dialog, or something like that.
 
Demetrios2177 said:
I like it. Maybe Jack Crusher had to cobble it together for himself, or it could have been some below-the-counter purchase.
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Every time I see the Jack Crusher Phaser, this is what I’m reminded of….

The emitter from the Exploration Set Phaser…

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…the main body from the Franz Joseph Phaser…

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…the top of the Assault Phaser.

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The Terminator said:
Well since Star Trek turned into jj/kurtzman trek it also turned into fantasy. Death is no problem with an infinite amount of timelines/alternate realities.

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Except they recreated the TNG set instead of the newer version from Generations? Nitpicking ;) As Alley already posted. :)



Read about that shortly after her passing. Been eagerly waiting for it to happen. Having already been done to Vader's voice, it wouldn't really hurt much if Majel's computer voice sounds a bit artificial.



Didn't Picard die in season 1? :p




Totally. Buuuut :p There is a (lot of) major difference between TOS/TNG and kurtzman trek.
Typically Trek used to deal with issues and present one or two viewpoints.
Kurtzman trek tends to try to beat people senseless with a message. I would say it doesn't really matter if the viewer agrees with whatever political messages are presented. It can be really off-putting, even when you agree with it. Let the viewer decide "who's right".

I at least want good stories, with fleshed out characters that do not feel like 2D caricatures. Some versimilitude! Stick with rules of the universe, or at least do not invent new rules that makes no sense in established canon.
Stargate made fun of this years ago.


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Remember, Abrams got there first with his magic Khan blood.

And the literal reuse of Majel dialogue in this episode actually makes sense, because the computer WOULD say the same words in exactly the same way.
 
Treadwell said:
I don't see negativity in the set discussion. It's analysis. It's what we do on this forum.
I don't see any "this part is off so the set sucks" going on.
Let's put away the straw man.
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I don't see the analysis in "But the set is yet another example of the way Kurtzman treated this: It may look like the original at first glace, but upon closer examination, there are serious flaws.".
 
Treadwell said:
I don't see negativity in the set discussion. It's analysis. It's what we do on this forum.
I don't see any "this part is off so the set sucks" going on.
Let's put away the straw man.
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Yeah, I don't see it either. I'm not concerned enough about whether they got every jot and tittle right to participate (and I lack the expertise anyway), but I don't see anything wrong with the discussion.
 
asalaw said:
Yeah, I don't see it either. I'm not concerned enough about whether they got every jot and tittle right to participate (and I lack the expertise anyway), but I don't see anything wrong with the discussion.
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There is a difference between factual observations and value judgments.
 
Gregatron said:
There is a difference between factual observations and value judgments.
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Of course, and I don't have problem with either, as long as they don't turn into ad hominems. I may disagree with an opinion, but I always prefer to keep things cordial.
ALLEY said:
Come on all…don’t let this devolve into the types of infighting we see over in the Star Wars threads…we’re Trekies—we’re better than that ;)
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Strongly agree, though I generally don't hang out there. Not as much interest in the subject matter. I am watching Mandalorian and Bad Batch, though. But in any case, yeah--let's not devolve. DEVO was campy enough in the 80's, I'd rather not go through that again. :p

I am Trekkie. Hear me roar. :p
 
asalaw said:
Of course, and I don't have problem with either, as long as they don't turn into ad hominems. I may disagree with an opinion, but I always prefer to keep things cordial.

Strongly agree, though I generally don't hang out there. Not as much interest in the subject matter. I am watching Mandalorian and Bad Batch, though. But in any case, yeah--let's not devolve. DEVO was campy enough in the 80's, I'd rather not go through that again. :p

I am Trekkie. Hear me roar. :p
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I wasn’t turned off by the fact they re-created the original Enterprise D bridge set.

I know that it had been revised and updated for the movie, but that is not what I was looking for

I was looking for encounter at Farpoint. When I saw the old ship hiding away at space dock I first rolled my eyes and said, oh yeah, of course!

But when I saw them all on the bridge, reminiscing about the good all days. All of my nostalgia berries went into full bloom, and I was right back in front of my television in 1987.
 
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